| If you'd just say the word I'm certain that our love would last forever and ever, or are you too dumb to realize that? |
[Oct. 20th, 2004|09:22 pm] |
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Gifted Program was yesterday.
Mmm. All day yesterday, cooped up in the library, a large group of smart people.
It. Was. Brilliant.
Some people didn't come this year that were in it last year, like Kyle and Jon. Kyle, I dunrillycare 'cos I haven't seen him in a while and it really would be a stupid sentence if I only had one example. Jon not coming made me sad, since he's the 00berDemocrat, and everyone in the rest of the world Ohio is a Republican.
...You know, at one point when I said that, it was actually true. In 6th grade, I was one of 2 liberals in my class. But actually, there are more now. Everyone's more political now, so it could be that, but I dunno. Anyway.
Andrew and Sarah were there, and Jule and Brian. Not like any of those names except Jule mean anything to any of you, but oh well. Deal.
We had a get-to-know-you-activity, which consisted of finding two interesting things about every person. I told people I liked orange, I was a sophomore, I wrote for the Torch, I work on the mural, I am a language obsessor, and I know about 30 digits of Pi. The teachers pulled names out of a hat for people to tell things about people. They pulled me and a dude, and he said, "She knows 30 places of Pi, which is really scary." =D
Then, the teachers brought us cookies. Yummy, huge, Busken cookies. Not like Busken is ANYWHERE other than Cincinnati, but I don't care. Busken makes the best sugar cookies with pretty frosting that stains your teeth EVER.
Anyway, they were great cookies.
They were BUSH and KERRY cookies!
They were red cookies with a caricature of Kerry on them, and blue cookies with a caricature of Bush on them. So, basically a few hours into the day everyone knew everyone's political party, which made it fun because we could get with people of the same beliefs and just have our own little liberal pep rally (XP), or we could get with everyone else and debate.
Good times, indeed.
I made some freshman friends. It was great. Danielle was in IB, Chelsea was in MAST, and then there was another freshman in CTS, Emily. I don't know any of our freshmen! I don't have any classes with 'em, obviously. I will eventually, if I decide am forced into taking Gym sometime.
We watched some of the first debate, and talked and stuff. No one cares. We talked about good public speaking and debating crap. We're doing debates this year.
Before lunch, we brainstormed issues. The first thing to come out of Andrew and I's mouths was "Gay marriage". We had a whole bunch of crap.
Anyway, the teachers put them up on big poster papers in the hallways and we had to vote. Eventually, there would be 6 topics: 3 in December, our next meeting, and 3 for sometime in Spring.
They gave us dot stickers to vote. While we were waiting, I had a stupid idea: FINGER TWISTER!
And, as can only happen in Gifted Program, everyone at my table loved the idea.
So, we took our squares of 4 dots each and put them together, making a 16-dot square.
"Pinky finger green!"
"Index finger red!"
Good times, good times.
We voted and stuff. The first three topics we're debating are Gay Rights, Death Penalty, and Separation of Church and State.
The teachers told us to form groups for each issue. Everyone at my table made a dash to the Gay Rights group.
Our group ended up being 11 people: On the For side, Jess from Choir, Andrew, Me, Chelsea, Danielle, and Einstein (best name ever). On the Against, Brian, Emily, Sarah, and some people I don't know.
Anyway, Brian, Andrew, Einstein, and Jess wanted to be the debaters. We were supposed to have 2 debaters on each side. Andrew had to switch sides. =\
I'm a researcher. I research. Yeah.
Anyway, since the other 2 groups were having issues, and we got done really quickly, we talked for the rest of the time.
We talked about how people have committed suicide at the Public library downtown, and also about what things have "gone on" at our schools' Performing Arts Centers.
I will never look at backstage the same way again.
Also: Playboy Braille. Godddd XD
Lunch. We talked more, because our table just fucking pwnz. It was SOMUCH fun.
In the afternoon, we did more 'teambuilding' activities, but really we just talked more. Our group is -the best-, including our teacher Ms. Recker. She's great.
Wow. I still have English, Math, Journalism, and two different letters to do. Fuckshitdamnhell. ^^;
Today was... boring. Very. I stared in 1st period, I drew a peacock in 2nd, I stared and pwned trivia in 3rd, I stared at people and read at lunch, I read in 4th, I did work and read in 5th, and I wrote in Esperanto in 6th. In Choir, we sight-read and I can't sight-read worth crap. Christmas songs... x.X;
~Drew is teaching English tomorrow. This will be interesting, Joy thinks. |
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